The UNI token, native to leading decentralized exchange Uniswap, rocketed nearly 40% to around $9.70 after the Uniswap Foundation and Uniswap Labs unveiled the “UNIfication” proposal—a set of token-friendly updates designed to enhance UNI’s value proposition. Central to the plan is a protocol-level fee switch that will automatically burn collected fees, alongside an immediate burn of 100 million UNI (roughly 16% of the circulating supply).

Australia-based Propanc Biopharma announced it secured up to $100 million in funding from Hexstone Capital to build a crypto treasury and accelerate development of its lead cancer therapy PRP, which targets metastatic solid tumors. The private placement, structured as convertible preferred stock, includes an initial $1 million with up to $99 million available over the next 12 months.

Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez received the maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for operating an unlicensed Bitcoin mixing service that prosecutors said laundered more than $200 million in illicit funds. Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York also imposed a $250,000 fine, underscoring the court’s view that the service was designed to obfuscate blockchain transaction trails and enable crypto crime tied to darknet markets, hacks, and fr

The U.S. government shutdown has stretched to 38 days, stalling the long-anticipated crypto market structure legislation known as the CLARITY Act as the Senate readies a critical funding vote. The Republican-backed proposal needs 60 votes to advance; however, partisan disagreements over Affordable Care Act subsidies and expiring tax credits have frozen progress.

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Franklin Templeton has unveiled the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund for professional investors in Hong Kong, a first-of-its-kind “end-to-end” tokenized money market fund that issues, distributes, and services its shares entirely on a blockchain ledger — while still operating under the European UCITS regulatory umbrella.

Stream Finance has paused deposits and withdrawals after an external fund manager disclosed a roughly $93 million loss in fund assets, according to the protocol’s announcement on X. The team said it has engaged Perkins Coie attorneys Keith Miller and Joseph Cutler to investigate and is withdrawing all liquid assets while providing periodic updates.

France is weighing two contradictory crypto policies that signal a split vision in Paris: treating digital assets as taxable “unproductive” wealth while pursuing a strategic national Bitcoin reserve. A first-reading amendment in the French National Assembly rebrands the real-estate-focused wealth tax into a broader tax on “unproductive wealth,” explicitly including digital assets.

The T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU)—a private coalition formed by Tether, TRON, and TRM Labs—froze over $300 million in criminal cryptocurrency assets across 23 countries in its first year, outpacing many government agencies. According to the report, the United States led with $83 million frozen across 37 cases, while cases spanned fraud, scams, money laundering, and high-profile hacks, including $19 million traced to DPRK-linked actors from the Bybit hack.

China’s central bank intensified its stance against stablecoins, with People’s Bank of China (PBoC) Governor Pan Gongsheng calling dollar-pegged tokens a threat to global financial stability and monetary sovereignty. Speaking at the Financial Street Annual Meeting in Beijing, Pan said stablecoins amplify vulnerabilities in the financial system and fall short of core compliance standards, including AML and KYC, warning they can facilitate illicit finance.

Decentralized exchange dYdX published a post-mortem on an Oct. 10 outage that halted the dYdX Chain for roughly eight hours during the largest crypto liquidation event in history. The team attributed the halt to a misordered code process and prolonged validator delays restarting oracle sidecar services, which led to stale oracle data and incorrect trade/liquidation prices once operations resumed.

S&P Global Ratings assigned Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy a B- credit rating, placing it firmly in speculative “junk bond” territory while maintaining a stable outlook. The agency cited the company’s narrow business focus on Bitcoin, high BTC concentration, weak risk-adjusted capitalization, and low U.S. dollar liquidity as key weaknesses.

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has initiated a civil lawsuit against HTX, formerly Huobi, in London's High Court. The regulator accuses the global crypto exchange of illegally promoting cryptoasset services to UK consumers without proper authorization or registration, marking a significant escalation in the FCA's efforts to enforce its new financial promotions regime for digital assets.

Moon Inc. (HKEX: 1723) has raised roughly HK$65.5 million (about US$8.8 million) to launch a Bitcoin prepaid card in Thailand and South Korea, with broader expansion across Asia under evaluation. The Hong Kong–listed firm, formerly HK Asia Holdings, plans to sell BTC through prepaid card rails at convenience stores, kiosks, and telecom shops—letting users “top up” Bitcoin similar to mobile airtime.

Hong Kong has approved and launched its first spot Solana ETF, issued by ChinaAMC, giving institutional investors regulated exposure to SOL without needing wallets or private keys. Trading begins Oct. 27 on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange across HKD, USD, and RMB counters, tracking the CME CF Solana-USD Index with an expense ratio near 2%.

Evernorth Holdings, a Ripple-linked digital asset firm, plans to go public via a $1 billion SPAC merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II, aiming to build one of the world’s largest XRP treasuries through open-market purchases. The deal includes a $200 million commitment from Japan’s SBI Holdings, with additional backing expected from Ripple, Pantera Capital, Kraken, and GSR.

Stripe’s new payments-focused blockchain, Tempo, secured $500 million in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital and Greenoaks, valuing the Layer-1 network at $5 billion, according to Fortune. The raise comes less than two months after Stripe unveiled Tempo in partnership with Paradigm, positioning it as a “payments-oriented L1” optimized for high-scale, real-world financial applications like stablecoin payments and cross-border settlements.

The U.S. SEC approved 21Shares’ Form 8‑A (12B) for its Solana Spot ETF, officially registering it on the Cboe BZX Exchange and signaling trading could begin soon. This SEC approval has fueled bullish market sentiment, with investors debating whether Solana (SOL) can rally to $300 and set new all‑time highs.

The UK is moving to compensate victims of a massive Bitcoin fraud tied to a 61,000 BTC seizure, but court filings and policy signals suggest the government may retain most of the estimated $7.2 billion haul after restitution. The Home Office is developing a centralized “crypto storage and realisation framework” to manage confiscated digital assets, while civil recovery proceedings determine how funds are distributed.